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More than two years into a quarantine on citrus trees in much of Southern California, the Asian citrus psyllid continues to spread. This spring researchers discovered the tiny insects on the 140-year-old Eliza Tibbets tree in Riverside, known as the parent of navel orange trees the world over.<\/p>\n

To control the insects\u2019 spread, researchers already have introduced a parasitic wasp that preys on the psyllids and their larvae. Southern California growers also are using a rotating regimen of pesticides to protect the state\u2019s $2 billion citrus crop. But protecting the Eliza Tibbets tree will require special measures, and friends of the tree are raising money to build a specialized mesh enclosure around the canopy.<\/p>\n

Riverside citrus historian Vince Moses says the seedless navel oranges we know so well today are \u201ca mutant of a Brazilian variety called the Selecta.\u201d Eliza Tibbets, one of Riverside\u2019s founders, introduced two of the Selecta’s mutant offspring to California in the 1870s. Beside her house in Riverside, the trees yielded America’s first seedless fruit: large, brightly colored and easy to peel.<\/p>\n

One tree died in 1921, and the lone survivor now stands nearby at an ordinary intersection ringed with small apartment buildings and a strip mall. But in the late 19th century, the area was transformed by Tibbets\u2019 introduction. \u201cThere were thousands of acres of navel orange groves, with streetcar lines, with irrigation canals,\u201d Moses says.<\/p>\n

Tibbets’ neighbors used cuttings from her two original trees to establish the first navel orange orchards in California. Over the years, mutations of their offspring provided new varieties to farmers from South Africa to Pakistan. California became a global hub for citrus, and by the turn of the 20th century, Riverside was the wealthiest city per capita in all the United States.<\/p>\n

But today the tree that made it all possible is at risk of contracting citrus greening disease, caused by a bacterium called huang long bing. In Chinese, Moses says, huang long bing translates roughly as \u201cthe yellow shoot disease. If the psyllid bites this parent tree, and injects huang long bing, they\u2019re gone. There\u2019s no known cure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citrus greening curls the leaves of new growth on orange trees and causes the fruit to have a bitter metallic taste. The psyllids in California aren\u2019t yet infected with huang long bing, and growers here have not experienced any losses. But the disease already has spread throughout all 32 citrus-growing counties in Florida and much of Texas.<\/p>\n

Tracy Kahn, a botanist who curates UC Riverside\u2019s Citrus Variety Collection, explains that most infected trees die within a few years. \u201cThey’re losing trees in Florida left and right,\u201d she says, \u201cand it’s really hard to keep an industry going because trees have a very short life.\u201d The Citrus Variety Collection is the largest in the world, with more than 1,000 kinds of fruit, many of them descendants of the Tibbets tree. To guard against citrus greening, clones of every variety in the collection are now being kept in a nearby greenhouse, too, as a botanical backup.<\/p>\n

Giorgios Vidalakis, a citrus virologist with the university\u2019s Citrus Clonal Protection Program (CCCP), says it\u2019s only a matter of time before citrus greening spreads to orchards in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know it\u2019s not a question of if, it\u2019s a question of when,\u201d he explains. Inside a large greenhouse at the CCCP\u2019s quarantine site in Riverside, researchers use cuttings to propagate new varieties for California citrus growers in a pathogen-free environment.<\/p>\n

Vidalakis says that citrus greening is an example of a pathogen getting around the quarantine system. \u201cWe believe that a single tree, brought into Miami, Fla. \u2014 right now, that one tree is destroying the $10 billion Florida citrus industry,” he says.<\/p>\n

To protect the Tibbets tree, Vidalakis says, \u201cWe have created a buffer zone, removing citrus relatives and ornamental plants. For huang long bing, we don’t have the solution yet. The best solution now, to buy us time until science finds a more permanent solution, is to build a protective structure\u201d around the tree. Such a structure would keep infected psyllids from feeding on the tree’s sap and could cost as much as $50,000. The city has pledged to cover part of the cost, but additional donations are welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, it really keeps me up at night,\u201d Vidalakis says. \u201cWe don’t want to be the generation that loses that tree. But if the mesh plan works, Vidalakis thinks they can keep the tree alive indefinitely: \u201cI don\u2019t see any reason we can\u2019t go on forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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